The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
THE JEWISH MOTHERS REVENGE.
How Mile Helene de Rothschild Was
Punished
from Lucy Hooper's Paris Letter.
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From Lttcy Hooper's Paris Letter.
The sensation of the last week has been
the marriage of Mile. Helene Betty de Roths
child to the Baron van Zuylen van Haar of
Belgium 1t was very quiet affair, only the
relatives and most intimate friends of the
bride and bridegroom being present. 1t is
now some months since Mile. Helene, the
greatest helress III Europe, packed up her
trunks and went down to Compelgne with
all her retinue of servants, equipages, dogs
and horses, to say nothing of her governeSs
and her lady companion, TO stay at the
house of the aged physician of the family,
Dr. Raymond, and from thence to launch
the three respectful summons" required
by French law as a preliminary to matri-
mony without parental consent. at her
mother, the widowed Baroness Solomon.
There is not solitary objection to be made
to Baron van Haar, except that he is
Christian and Catholic, and by no means
wealthy As to the latter disqualification,
it might have been overlooked, | think, as
the ladys fortune amounts to fully Sl2 ,000,-
900, with as much more in prospect when
her mother dies. She is sure to inherit the
latter fortune, despite the wrath of the old
lady at the marriage, for, by the provision
of the Code Napoleon, no parent can disin-
herit a child The Baroness gave in so far
as to accord at last nominal consent to the
nuptials, but she was not present at the
wedding, and has it is said, already inferred
in effigy her disobedient daughter with all
the solemn formalities. of Jewish rites. She
is one of the most bigoted in religious mat
tiers of all that bigoted family, and has not
for years past so much as spoken to her
two sisters, both of whom married scions of
the French nobility 1t is a singular fact
that while several of the ladies of the Roths-
child family have married Christians no
male member of it has ever been known to
do so. 1t is well-known fact that Baron
Alfred de Rothschild was at one time
deeply in love with the beautiful and
widowed Mrs Woodward formerly
Miss Minnie King of Georgia, and
now the Marchioness of Anglesey),
but his father Baron James of
London, sternly prohibited the match,
and as he, by the English law, had the
power of dsinheriting his son, the young
man was forced to yield to the parental
dictum. The Baron van Haar is said to be
one of the handsomest men in Europe; tall,
athletic, and finely formed, with regular
features and brilliant, expressive eyes. he
belongs to one of the noblest families in
Belgium, his young cousin and the head of
the house being the Prince de Looz Cors-
WARDEN The Prince was present at the
wedding and was the first witness for tine
bridegroom, an Office that corresponds at a
French marriage 10 that of ''best man" at
an English or American one He is very
handsome young fellow of 81 and has more
than once been in negotiation for the hand of
an American heiress, he being as poor in
pocket as he is noble by birth. But he is a
dissipated youth, and his follies and frolics
have heretofore hndered him from marry
ing well-that is to say, wealthy The new
Baroness van Haar, the bride of the other
day, is plain, and stout, and strong minded,
and something over 30 years of age. She
always used to declare that she never
would marry, and strenuously resisted all
the attempts of her family to make match
between herself and one of her de Roths-
child cousins She has had her own way,
and mas espoused the man of her choice.
AS an American woman | cannot but ap-
plaud the energy and independence with
which she put her matrimonial projects INTO
execution. May she and her handsome hus-
band be as happy as the day is long! If the
external loveliness of home has anything
to do with the bliss of its inmates they GER
tainly will be, for all Paris holds no more
exquisite abode than the charming hotel on
the Avenue du Bots de Boulogne in which
the newly welded pair are to take up their
residence when they return TO Paris from
their HONEYMOON Journey.